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Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney are joined by special guest Marianne Cassidy for This Just In, a subset of the fortnightly The 250 podcast looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman.

Notes:

• Recorded 9th June 2017.
• Wonder Woman at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Read Marianne’s blog at Massive Hassle.
• Follow Marianne on Twitter.
• Chris Thilk at Ad Week discussing the marketing of Wonder Woman, or lack thereof.
• Cara Buckley at The New York Times on attending an all-women screening of Wonder Woman.
• Mayor Steve Adler of Austin responds to the outrage over the all-women screenings of Wonder Woman.
• Tatiana Siegel at The Hollywood Reporter on the complicated gender politics that informed the development and production of Wonder Woman.
• Patty Jenkins talks to Fandango about how she had to argue for the inclusion of the “no man’s land” sequence.
• Jessica Valenti at The Guardian on her emotional reaction to Wonder Woman.
• Angelica Jade Bastién at Vulture on the complicated feminist history of Wonder Woman as a concept.
• Abraham Riesman at Vulture on the story of George Perez’s hugely influential Wonder Woman reboot.
• Shoshana Kessock at Tor on the controversy of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s Wonder Woman run.
• Will Brownell and Denise Drace-Brownell on Erich Ludendorff as “The First Nazi.”
• Jean Onufrak at The National Archives on how on how the First World War was “The Chemist’s War.”
• Rachel Becker at The Verge on the improbability of Wonder Woman‘s chemical weapon.
• QI on when “the First World War” was first called “the First World War.”
• Darren’s review of Wonder Woman.
• Follow The 250 on Twitter.
• Subscribe to The 250 on iTunes.
• Listen to The 250 on Stitcher.

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